I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.